Toy projectile.



J. C. PEWTHER.

TOY PROJECTILE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY H, 1917.

Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

1 0 pt M E u m a ou JUDSON UPEWTHEK arrears annr canton JUDSON' C. PEWTHEE, OFFORT BLISS, TEXAS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. e, was.

Application filedi'uly 11, 1917. Serial No. 179,942.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that JUDsoN G. Pnwrnnn, a

citizen of the United fitates, residing at Fort.

Bliss, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Projectiles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to toys, and particularly to arrows or like projectiles.

The general object of theinvention is the provision of an arrow which maybe safely shot or projected by children without-danger of the arrow injuring any object or hurting the child.

A further object of the invention is to provide an arrow which may be projected for the purpose of killing flies and which is so constructed that it cannot mash the fly but will simply killit.

" Other objects will appear inthe course the manner in which the wire gauze is folded to form the head illustrated in Fig. 3.

Referring particularly to Fig. 1, 10 des ignates the shaft of the arrow which may be provided with wings or not, as desired,

and which may be notched at its winged end or not, as desired, depending upon whether w the arrow isprojected from a bow or from object and the impact a pop-gun or like device. The opposite end of the arrow carries a substantially bulbous head 11, which in the construction illustrated in Fig. 1 is formed of a plurality of fine wires, not interwoven with each other, but simply bent around to form a substantiallv globular head, the wires being brought 7 arouhd the shaft and a wrappinglQ holding the wires in close engagement with the shaft. The wires 11 areslightly resilient so that the bulbous head will yield upon striking an of the. arrow will be cushioned.

in the accom-x In Fig. 2 I show another form of the invention, in which the shaft 10 at one end is provided with a bulbous head 14 formed by taking a blankrof wire gauze, folding or bending its edges so to surround the end of the shaft, which is somewhat enlarged as at 13 for this purpose, and thenbinding this last named portion of the blank ,to the head 13 of the shaft by means of a wrapping of wire 15.

In Fig. 8 I Show the preferred form of the invention, in which a. relatively oblong piece 16 of wire gauze has its ends bent around 7 and disposed on each side of the shaft 10 the lateral corners of the wire gauze being bent inward as at 17 and the head so formed being held upon the shaft by means of a wrapping of wire 18 and a covering, as for instance a covering of adhesive tape, designated 19.

This form of my invention is preferred because of the relative ease with which it.

may be made and because of the relatively largev lateral opening through the head formed by the wire gauze 16 which will permit the outward movement of the air when the arrow impacts on an object so that if for instance the object be a fly, the air in front of the projectile will not force the fly out of the path of movement of the projectile. Furthermore, this form of the device be made to have a greater strength and resilience than the other forms of the.

device so that it will last longer and have [greater cushioning power. In all forms of my device, the wire gauze, when formed into the bulb, or the equivalent thereof, is resilient to a greater or less extent.

It will be seen that an arrow of this kind may be used by children without any danger of its injuring another child or injuringobjects against which it is projected and, furthermore, it can be used as a means for killing insects, such as flies, water bugs, etc.

Having described my invention, what I claim is: I

1. An arrow of the character described comprising a shaft and a head mounted on the end of the shaft, the head consisting of a section of wire gauze bent to arch over the end of the shaft in spaced relation thereto.

2. An arrow of the character described comprising a shaft and a head formed of a strip of Wire gauze, the ends of which are bent inwartt to engage with the shaft of the arrow to thereby cause the main body of t1 0 (Fire gauze to be disposed in spaced relation to the one? of the shah the extremities of the Wire gauze strip being attached to the shaft.

3.. A11 arrow having a shaft and subs'umtially bulbous hollow head of Wire gagze. 3.0

JUDeoN PEWTHER J. Vmemz L. HEATHERLY, A THOMAS PEWTEER.

addressing the flommissiener a2 Eetants. 

